The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-14

rying concealed weapons. The discus
sion lasted till 10 p. NJ, when the Hous
by a vote OF IS to 81 decided to recon
NIT the bill, and then adjourned.
THE PHOSPHATE BILL.
The phosphate bill, the provisions o
which have already been summarized il
these columns, caused quite length.
debate in the Senate. The various pro
visions Of the bii! were freely discussed
The first vote came up on Senator Tai
bert's motion to make the duration O.
the proposed grant ten years instead O.
twenty. This amendment was lost by s
vote Of Il nays to IL yeas. Next hi
amendment to increase the royalty wa:
lost By vote OF % nays to 10 yeas
Various other amendments were offered
with varying results, but without indi
eating the sense of the Senate upon the
measure as whole. Finally Senator
Noise, of Sumter, moved to Indefinitely
postpone the bill. Senator Murray
moved to table this motion. The yeas
and nays were called, and the vote stood
as follows:
Yeas-Alexander, Bell, Bieman, Buist.
Edward, Field, Howell, Murray, Moore,
Munro, NIcMaster, Reynolds, Sinkler,
Sigh, Smythe, Talbert, Williams-l7.
Nays-Austin, Black, Byrd, Crews,
Erwin, Hemphill, Izlar, Kennedy,
Moody, Mccall, Noise, Patterson,
Rnsme, Smith, Woford, Wingard,
Woodward and Youmans-lS.
The bill was then indefinitely post
poned without division.
SOME NEW MEASURES.
Quite number Of new measures have
been introduced-among them the fol
lowing:
In TIE Senate: Bill to amend the trial
justice law.
Bill to regulate licenses for insurance
companies doing business in this State.
Bill to renew and amend the charter
Of the Oak Point Mining Company.
Bill to extend, amend and renew the
charter of the Farmers Phosphate Com
pany.
Bill incorporating the Security Ssv-
ings Bank of Charleston.
Bill incorporating the Summerville
Building and LoanAssociation.
By Senator Moore, bill to restore q
per diem payment to county boards of
examiners.
In the House: Mr. Lesesne, bill to re-
peal certain Acts so as to remit the
county of Coleton to the operations of
Chapter ~, General Statutes, relating to
the stock law.
Mr.. Abney, bill to amend Chapter y,
&C., Of the General Statutes, relating to
assignments by insolyent debtors.
Mr.. Aucrum, bill to charter the Cam
den Street Railway Company.
Mr. Tesgue, bill requiring the super
Of the Pen;tentiary to provide
separate maintenance, lodging and train
ing for criminals under Is years of age.
Mr.. Plowden, bill to authorize the
town council of Forreston to borrow
money for building an academy and
boarding-house.
Mr.. Johnston, bill to abolish the Office
OF superintendent of highways in Pick
ems county.
ABOUT TEE CENSUS.
There was long and earnest debate
in the House on the bill to re-apportion
the Representatives according to the bill
previously reported by the proper com
mittee. This bill simply provides that
there shall be reapportionment of rep
resentation on the basis of the United
States census of 1880 and divides out
the Representatives among the counties,
taking four from Charleston and one
each from Aiken, Hampton and Rich
land counties, and giving an additional
Representative to Beaufort, Edgefeld,
Greenville, Laurens, Marlboro, Spartan
burg and Sumter counties.
There was long and earnest debat5-
the opponents of the bill resting then
objections mainly upon the ground that
it would be in violation of the State
Constitution.
The yeas and nays were called on the
motion to strike out the enacting words
During the call Of the roll there was per
feet silence in the House, most of the
members keeping tally of the votes.
The motion was finally declared lost by
vote Of 81 to 90.
Mr.. Haskell offered an amendment
which was accepted, providing that thil
apportionment shall only hold good un
til after the adjournment of the Genera
Assembly which will be elected in 1890
After some further debate it was sug
gested that the apporhonment set fortt
in the bill had never been verified BY
reference to the records Of the census o.
1880, as fled in the Office of the Secre
tary Of State.
After some discussion Mr.. HASKELL
motion to recommit to special commit
tee was adopted on a division, with The
understanding that the committee SHOULD
report as soon as they had verified tn
figures and that the bill would then b
taken up for its third reading, the oppo
sition guaranteeing that it should no
lose its place on the Calendar. Th
special committee appointed by th
Speaker was composed of Messrs. Simp
son, Douglass and Aldrich.
The committee, on the DAY following
reported that they had made the neces
sary calculations, and found that th
representation would be as follows: Ab
oeville 5, Aiken 3, Anderson i, Barn
well 5, Beaufort 4, Berkeley 5, Charles
ton s, Chester 8, Clarendon 2, Colleto
5, Darlington I, Edgeieid s, Fai1feld
Georgetown 2, Greenville 5, Hampto
2, Horny 2, kershaw 3, Lancaster
Laurens 4, Lexington ?, Mar.oa !
Marlboro 3, Newberry 3, Oconee
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